Monarda Bee-Free - Bee Balm Long Blooming

Monarda Bee-Free - Bee Balm Long BloomingWe love the Bee You series of Monarda in our garden for their ample flowers and resistance to disease. We planted some in both our patio area and our Earth Day garden to stunning effect. Bee Free has hot pink purple flowers that open from magenta colored buds. The blooms sit in deep purple centers, which blanket the plant for months of color. Blooms are eye popping on a blanket of darker green foliage. The small size of the Bee You line, 15 20 inches

Planted in mass it can be truly stunning offering a platform of color to pollinators when it is in bloom

This is definitely a new “Wow

and cottage gardens

and the leaves stay full and glossy unbothered by most insects

The bald cypress is a large

it's best to leave old fronds on the plant through winter rather than cutting them back in fall

The genus Salix hosts 328 species of Lepidoptera larvae

going home with the Perennial Plant Associations "Plant of the Year Award"

This long-blooming perennial produces its charming ½-inch white flowers continuously from early summer through fall

but a more refined burgundy display that pairs beautifully with the ripening fruit

Plant Snow Fountain where its elegant weeping form and early spring display can be appreciated up close—near walkways

it benefits from 2-4 inches of organic mulch to keep roots cool and moist during summer heat